Planned Parenthood is in more hot water. Most recently, the organization was caught running a campaign to convince Black women that killing their
unborn babies was safer for the mother's health, than carrying their baby to term/birth.

Now, Congress has discovered that Planned Parenthood is hiding instances of rape, incest, and sexual assaults.

Members of Congress have had enough. Today 56 members of Congress signed on to a joint letter slamming the Planned Parenthood abortion business for
not properly reporting cases of child rape, sexual abuse, and sexual assault.

As LifeNews has documented multiple times, Planned Parenthood has a history of not reporting statutory rape or sexual abuse to authorities. The
abortion corporation frequently covers up cases of rape with abortion and refuses to report rape cases to law enforcement.

The members of Congress today called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to begin an investigation into Planned Parenthood after a
report released last week detailed Planned Parenthood’s decades-long history of performing abortions on sexual abuse victims as young as 12 and
failing to report the abuse to authorities.

Maybe you are looking at this from one angle but not another. Have you had a friend get raped and impregnated at a young age? Why would that young
girl want to bring this instance to light? They would face ridicule and retribution in that area for the rest of their life. I completely understand
them not reporting the issue depending on the situation. But the situation is very circumstantial.

Maybe you are looking at this from one angle but not another. Have you had a friend get raped and impregnated at a young age? Why would that young
girl want to bring this instance to light? They would face ridicule and retribution in that area for the rest of their life. I completely understand
them not reporting the issue depending on the situation. But the situation is very circumstantial.

Yeah can't imagine why they wouldn't want the most degrading thing ever to happen to them out in the open for everyone to see.

an early termination of a pregnancy IS safer than giving birth???
and black women are 2 to 6 times more likely to die, depending on the area of the country they are living in, from complications related to
pregnancy...

but, of course, we can't expect any self respecting pro lifer to see such a stat being tweeted from planned parenthood in a wtf is happening here kind
of way and wonder if there might be some kind of social inequality issue associated with the stat...
oh no, shame on planned parenthood for providing the truthful information.. pull their danged funding, now!!! increase women's difficulty in getting
reproductive services/early pregnancy and other basic testing, early prenatal care!! I'm sure that it will do wonders to decrease the risks
associated with pregnancy!!
after all ignorance is bliss, right???

It's pretty similar in the UK as well, a doctor approving an abortion for say, an under aged girl, would not breach her confidentiality if she didn't
want it. There are other protection issues if the doctor thinks the child is being abused, but generally patient/doctor confidentiality is supreme.
UK doctors will even prescribe the pill to an underage girl without the parents knowing, if the doctor knows they are having sex and making that
request of sound mind. That has been the case for some years now, there was initial outrage, but it's better than having more teenage single parents
than we already have.

Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler said, “It is unthinkable that Planned Parenthood would perform an abortion on a young girl with no questions
asked. The thought makes me shudder. It is alarming that an organization with a signature pattern of failure to report child sexual abuse continues to
receive taxpayer money. We need to investigate how widespread Planned Parenthood’s complicity truly is; this abuse needs to stop.”

Rep. Diane Black added: “Live Action’s report sheds light on horrific stories of abuse, rape, and sex trafficking, willfully ignored by Planned
Parenthood. Their failure to report these heinous crimes does not empower women or children – it empowers their abusers. This despicable cycle must
end now.”

How does reporting this to the government stop this abuse? It doesn't. I agree that this "despicable cycle" must end, but sadly reporting it will not
do it. In fact, it could (or would) be more detrimental to the abusee.

If a girl does not wish for it to be known, then it shouldn't be known.

Abortion constitutes about 3% of the services provided by Planned Parenthood; 97% are directed at women's health and birth control and in many cases
are the only option for women's healthcare.

One wonders if there is so much concern on the part of some folk sabout "Fake News" i.e. one-sided information reported that is obviously biased
against a person or topic ... why would material such as this would be promoted?

That would pay for about 100,000 'abortion pill' treatments for women up to nine weeks gestation, if with a private clinic here in the UK. Most don't
pay though as it is on the NHS.
I agree, small change in the scheme of things.

EDIT
Even just England and Wales has around 185,000 abortions each year, that sum couldn't cover that even.

as long as you have lawmakers and presidents willfully sexually abusing and sometime raping, women and girls... and even having slush funds set up to
pay the victims off....
I don't really think it matters what planned parenthood reports or doesn't.

meanwhile, not only does the US have the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, the rate have been climbing since 2000.

NPR and ProPublica teamed up for a six-month long investigation on maternal mortality in the U.S. Among our key findings:

More American women are dying of pregnancy-related complications than any other developed country. Only in the U.S. has the rate of women who die
been rising.
There's a hodgepodge of hospital protocols for dealing with potentially fatal complications, allowing for treatable complications to become
lethal.
Hospitals — including those with intensive care units for newborns — can be woefully unprepared for a maternal emergency.
Federal and state funding show only 6 percent of block grants for "maternal and child health" actually go to the health of mothers.
In the U.S, some doctors entering the growing specialty of maternal-fetal medicine were able to complete that training without ever spending time
in a labor-delivery unit.

personally, I am centering on this...

There's a hodgepodge of hospital protocols for dealing with potentially fatal complications, allowing for treatable complications to become lethal.

and just wondering....
could there possibly be a connection, or is it just coincidence, that the rise in maternal deaths seems to have begun around the same time as we saw
the a decrease of non-religious non profit hospitals and a growth of the catholic hospital systems??? the only other category of hospitals that
managed to grow was the for profit hospitals.

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